Powers/Abilities:Gregoire is highly knowledgeable in different animal species and their
behaviour, a skilled woodsman, excellent shot, blademaster and martial artist.

History: French naturalist Grégoire de Fronsac was in New France
in the Americas to study native fauna, but got caught up in the fighting
with the English. While with the troops of ruthless French general, he witnessed
the officer order the slaughter of a friendly Haudenosaunee (Iroquois) Mohawk
tribe, with only one survivor kept alive to act as a guide. A few weeks later
Grégoire discovered the guide, Mani, slitting the general's throat.
Rather than raise the alarm, the two absconded together, and over the following
months kept one another alive, eventually becoming blood brothers. When
Grégoire returned to France, Mani accompanied him. A few years later,
during the mid-1760s, Grégoire, by now a knight and the royal
taxidermist, was sent by King Louis XV of France to Gévaudan,
with orders to study the Beast terrorising the region, and to stuff its corpse
once the army caught it. While there Grégoire fell in love with Marianne
de Morangias, unaware (as she was) that her brother, Jean-François
de Morangias, was the Beast's master, and a member of a secret society, the
Wolves of God, headed by local priest Henri Sardis, which was using fear
of the Beast as a weapon against the King's perceived unholy (liberal or
enlightened) ways.

The
Beast evaded the army's efforts, and it fell to Mani and Grégoire
to hunt the creature. After driving it into a trap, the pair and their ally
the Marquis Thomas d'Apcher severely wounded the Beast, which fled. While
Grégoire saw to the wounded Marquis, Mani pursued the Beast, only
to be murdered by Jean-François. Identifying Mani's killer by
his distinctive silver shot, Grégoire avenged his friend's death,
breaking the society with the assistance of the Pope's secret agent, Sylvia,
and killing Jean-François in single combat. Afterwards Grégoire
and Marianne apparently departed for Africa together.